Socialist Party around 1917 and one of the leading publications of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party in 1919. An excellent run of the publication has survived for the dates July 1917 to July 1919, available on microfilm from New York Public Library, with only sporadic issues outside of those dates. Publication was suspended during the Red Scare of 1920. Novyi Mir was absorbed by Russkii Golos in 1938. Svobodnoe Slovo (Free Word) (October 1915 – September 1916) — For a period of one year, twelve monthly issues of this organ of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party were produced in New York City by veteran Russian Marxist Lev Deutsch. The paper published articles on the actions of the Tsarist regime against the Russian revolutionary movement and included material on the socialist movement in America. A run of the publication exists in hardcopy at the New York Public Library. Swedish Forskaren (The Investigator) (September 1893 – December 1924) — Non-affiliated newspaper published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which combined the ideas of socialism and rationalism. The paper pushed the idea that socialists were bound to wage war on religion owing to its status as a bulwark of capitalism. The paper was populist until about 1896 and socialist thereafter and included some material in Norwegian, Danish, and English, in addition to Swedish. Svenska Socialisten (The Swedish Socialist) (1905-July 1921) — Official organ of the Scandinavian Socialist Federation, published in Chicago. The paper began as the publication of the Swedish Branch of Local Rockford, Illinois, Socialist Party before being sold to the Skandinaviska Socialist Förbundet in 1911. Circulation grew over time, from just 900 copies in 1906 to a peak of 7,000 copies in 1916. The paper was generally supportive of the American temperance movement. During World War I the paper moved to the anti-war, revolutionary socialist Left Wing under the editorship of Nils R. Swenson. Fourteen issues of the paper were lost to American postal censorship during World War I. A complete run on microfilm shot in 5 reels is available from the Wisconsin Historical Society. Facklan (The Torch) (July 1921-March 1922) The Svenska Socialisten briefly changed its name to Facklan (The Torch) in July 1921. As with its predecessor, Facklan was published in Chicago. In March 1922 Facklan merged with the Rockford, Illinois paper Folket to form another publication called Ny Tid. The publication is available